Building a Modern Salt Industry Through Partnership

From Natural Salt Resources to a Modern Industry

Noolays Salt Producer Cooperative is developing a salt production and processing project in Dihun Woreda, Nogob Zone, Somali Regional State of Ethiopia, with the ambition to progress from pilot production to modern processing and full-scale industrial development. We are seeking strategic investors, technology partners, industrial partners, and long-term commercial partners who share our vision of building a sustainable salt industry together.

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97.45% & 98.78%Oct 2025 rock-salt NaCl assays (Garbo Arag & Habulay River)

350 g / LitrePreliminary recorded 1.0 L brine test (Oct 2026, unverified)

>250,000 mg/LPreliminary hypersaline brine TDS survey indication

150–200 haMapped solar-evaporation pond corridor

Future LinesPlanned industrial, livestock & future iodized edible salt

Pilot → ScaleMilestone-gated cooperative development model

Why partner with Noolays

A Staged Salt Development Anchored in Dihun Woreda

Established by members of the local community in Dihun Woreda, Nogob Zone, Noolays combines local cooperative resource stewardship with disciplined solar-salt engineering and staged capital deployment.

Ethiopian & Regional Market Potential

Developing the Habulay basin resource in Dihun Woreda (with an executive office in Jigjiga City) toward future supply of industrial processing salt, pastoral livestock salt, and — as a future product line subject to refining, iodization, food-safety testing, and regulatory compliance — refined iodized edible salt.

Separate Survey & Assay Evidence

October 2025 national laboratory assays on two Dihun Woreda rock-salt samples reported 97.45% NaCl (Garbo Arag) and 98.78% NaCl (Habulay River) on a dry basis, alongside preliminary basin survey indications (>250,000 mg/L TDS; 7–9 mm/day solar evaporation).

Disciplined Cooperative Governance

Member-owned cooperative committed to written quotations, independent quality control, monthly financial reporting, and milestone-gated progression from pilot verification to commercial scale.

Preliminary field-test record · 21 October 2026

Recorded Habulay Brine Evaporation Trial

Preliminary Test Record — 350 g/L Result

Preliminary evaporation test: A recorded 1.0-litre Habulay brine sample yielded 350 grams of recovered dry crystalline solids. The result requires repeat testing, moisture verification, and chemical analysis before it can be used as a commercial production assumption.

This October 2026 pre-pilot evaporation trial is a separate Cooperative-recorded observation; the recovered solids have not yet undergone independent laboratory certification and are distinct from the October 2025 rock-salt assays.

1.0 LitreRecorded Habulay brine sample

350 GramsRecovered dry crystalline solids

Pre-PilotRepeat & lab verification required

View Evaporation Test Record View Separate 2025 Lab Assays

350 g recovered dry crystalline solids in sample tray from 1.0-litre Habulay brine test — Plate E-01 · 350 g of recovered dry crystalline solids from a recorded 1.0-litre Habulay brine sample (Oct 2026).

Close-up of crystalline solids from the October 2026 evaporation test — Plate E-02 · Close-up of crystalline solids from the preliminary October 2026 test (pending chemical analysis).

Project photo gallery

Habulay Salt Basin on the Ground

Authentic site photographs from Dihun Woreda, Nogob Zone showing natural surface salt crusts, hypersaline river pools, and initial lined-pan evaporation trials.